1overcosc
Active Member
"Kanada" in the modern Iroquoian alphabet would actually be pronounced as "gaaa-naaa-taaa'. Each 'aaa' represents an 'a' sound that has to be drawn out to take a long time to say--length of time vowels are drawn out for actually has meaning in the Iroquoian languages. Appending a vowel with an 'h' means to say it for a medium amount of time, appending it with an apostrophe means say it quickly, and not appending anything means say it slowly. Generally in English, most of our vowels are said in what they would call medium time.